GC Golf’s Yonz Named Academic All-America by CoSIDA/Capital One

Jun 07, 2011

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The College Sports
Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) recently announced the
Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large teams, and senior
Matthew Yonz (Waycross, Ga.) of the Georgia
College golf team was named to the College Division Third Team.

The senior finished with 3.96 GPA with a double-major in
chemistry and general business at Georgia College, the top GPA of
any male Bobcat student-athlete. This marks the first time any
Bobcat golfer has been named an Academic All-American.

Yonz posted a 74.8 stroke average over nine events this season.
He was one of 45 student-athletes named Academic All-American and
the only one from the Peach Belt Conference (PBC).

The College Division includes the NCAA’s Division II and
III as well as the NAIA schools. The At-Large group includes
student-athletes from golf, fencing; gymnastics; ice hockey;
lacrosse; rifle; skiing; swimming; tennis; volleyball; water polo;
and wrestling. District 3 includes all schools from Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The teams are voted on by
the region’s sports information directors.

The 2010-11 season was another outstanding one for Bobcat Golf.
GC put four individuals on the All- PBC Teams, with head coach Jimmy Wilson taking Coach of the Year,
Billy Shida (2007-11) adding Player of the
Year honors, and Yonz now being named Academic All-American.

The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back
winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic
programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program,
Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the
student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in
post-season competition as well as documented academic success and
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About Capital
One
Capital One Financial Corporation (www.capitalone.com) is a
financial holding company whose subsidiaries, which include Capital
One, N.A. and Capital One Bank (USA), N. A., had $122.2 billion in
deposits and $197.5 billion in total assets outstanding as of
December 31, 2010. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Capital One
offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to
consumers, small businesses and commercial clients. Capital One,
N.A. has approximately 1,000 branch locations primarily in New
York, New Jersey, Texas, Louisiana, Maryland, Virginia and the
District of Columbia. A Fortune 500 company, Capital One trades on
the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "COF" and is included
in the S&P 100 index.

Capital One, an NCAA Corporate Champion, began its affiliation
with college sports with the sponsorship of the 2001 Capital One
Florida Citrus Bowl (now the Capital One Bowl) and ESPN’s
Capital One Bowl Week. In 2010, Capital One launched the Capital
One Cup, a prestigious new program rewarding NCAA Division I
athletics programs for their cumulative on-field performance across
multiple men’s and women’s sports. In addition, Capital
One sponsors the ABC College Football Halftime Report, Capital One
All-America Mascot Team, all 88 NCAA Championships including the
Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships,
and numerous other collegiate athletics programs.

To be eligible for Academic All-America® consideration, a
student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain
a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached
sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current
institution and be nominated by his/her sports information
director.

Since the program’s inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed
Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in
Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship
sports.